JAH Podcast

Welcome to the Journal of American History Podcast. In this feature of the Journal of American History, we will present interviews with authors of articles in our journal. In the future, we hope also to bring you conversations with award-winning authors of books on American history. If you have comments or suggestions, please e-mail us at jahcast@oah.org.

September 2019

Guest host Dr. Mireya Loza, Assistant Professor in Food Studies at New York University, interviews Dr. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda Assistant Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at Cornell University, about her article "For Labor and Democracy: The Farm Security Administration's Competing Visions for Farm Workers' Socioeconomic Reform and Civil Rights in the 1940s", which appears in the September 2019 issue of the Journal of American History.

June 2019

Guest host Dr. Susan Eva O'Donovan, Associate Professor of History at the University of Memphis, interviews Dr. Aaron R. Hall, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota about his article "Slaves of the State: Infrastructure and Governance through Slavery in the Antebellum South" which appears in the June 2019 issue of the Journal of American History.

March 2019

Guest host Dr. Max Felker-Kantor, Visiting Assistant Professor of American and African American history at Ball State University, interviews Dr. Anne Gray Fischer, Visiting Assistant Professor of history at Indiana University and Assistant Editor at the Journal of American History, about her article "'Land of the White Hunter': Legal Liberalism and the Racial Politics of Morals Enforcement in Mid-century Los Angeles," which appears in the March 2019 issue of the Journal of American History.

December 2018

Executive Editor Benjamin Irvin interviews Dr. Jamie Pietruska about her article, “‘A Tornado is Coming!’: Counterfeiting and Commercializing Weather Forecasts from the Gilded Age to the New Era,” which appears in the December 2018 issue of the Journal of American History.

September 2018

Guest host Robyn C. Spencer speaks with author Lisa Levenstein and Beijing Women's Conference attendee Loretta Ross about Levenstein's article, which appears in the September 2018 issue of the Journal of American History.

June 2018

Special guest host Dr. Kali Gross, Martin Luther King, Jr. Professor of History at Rutgers University, speaks with Garret Felber, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Mississippi, about his article in the June 2018 issue of the Journal of American History

March 2018

Benjamin Irvin, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Thomas A. Guglielmo, Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, about his article appearing in the March 2018 issue of the JAH.

December 2017

Benjamin Irvin, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Anne Macpherson, associate professor of history at the College of Brockport, SUNY, and Michael Staudenmaier, visiting assistant professor of history and Latin American and Latino/a studies at Aurora University, about their articles appearing in the December 2017 issue of the JAH.

December 2016

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Matt Garcia, director of the School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies at Arizona State University. In this episode they discuss his article appearing in the December 2016 issue of the JAH.

September 2016

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Tyson Reeder, volume coeditor for The Joseph Smith Papers in Salt Lake City, Utah. In this episode they discuss his article appearing in the September 2016 issue of the JAH.

June 2016

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Nina Silber, Professor of History at Boston University. In this episode they discuss her article appearing in the June 2016 issue of the JAH.

May 2016

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Robert Orsi, the first holder of the Grace Craddock Nagle Chair in Catholic Studies at Northwestern University. In this episode they discuss Professor Orsi's new book, History and Presence.

March 2016

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Yael A. Sternhell, Assistant Professor of History and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. They discuss her article appearing in the March 2016 issue of the JAH.

January 2016

Jessie Kindig, assistant editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Michael Honey, Professor of Labor and Ethnic Studies and American History at the University of Washington. They discuss his new book (available here) and his work.

December 2015

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Edward E. Curtis IV, Millennium Chair of the Liberal Arts and Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). They discuss his article appearing in the December 2015 issue of the JAH.

September 2015

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Rebecca Jo Plant, associate professor at the University of California, San Diego, about the article appearing in the September 2015 issue of the JAH. Rebecca Jo Plant is co-author along with Frances M. Clarke, senior lecturer at the University of Sydney.

June 2015

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Kelly Lytle Hernández, associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Heather Ann Thompson, professor of history at the University of Michigan. In this episode they discuss the JAH special issue, “Historians and the Carceral State.”

March 2015

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of Journal of American History, speaks with Rachel Hope Cleves, Associate Professor of History at the University of Victoria. In this episode they discuss her article, “What, Another Female Husband?”: The Prehistory of Same-Sex Marriage in America which appears in the March 2015 issue of the JAH.

December 2014

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Michael J. Pfeifer, author of “At the Hands of Parties Unknown? The State of the Field of Lynching Scholarship”, a State of the Field essay appearing in the December 2014 issue of the JAH.

November 2014

Ed Linenthal, executive editor of Journal of American History, speaks with Anne Sarah Rubin, Associate Professor of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. In this episode they discuss her new book, Through the Heart of Dixie: Sherman’s March and American Memory, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2014. 320 pp. $35.00). Her online exploration of Sherman’s March can be found at www.shermansmarch.org.

September 2014

Stephen Andrews, managing editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Christopher J. Phillips, NYU Gallatin School of Individualized Study, author of The New Math and Midcentury American Politics. His article appears in the September 2014 issue of the Journal of American History.

July 2014

Stephen Andrews talks with Alan Taylor, the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American History at the University of Virginia and the author of The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832. In this podcast they discuss how the institution of slavery, enslaved people, and white Virginians were affected by the experience of the American Revolution and the War of 1812. (Recorded in June 2014.)

June 2014

Stephen Andrews, managing editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Barbara Young Welke, University of Minnesota, author of The Cowboy Suit Tragedy: Spreading Risk, Owning Hazard in the Modern American Consumer Economy. Her article appears in the June 2014 issue of the Journal of American History.

March 2014

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Susan L. Carruthers, Professor of History at Rutgers University, Newark, author of “Produce More Joppolos”: John Hersey’s A Bell for Adano and the Making of the “Good Occupation”. Her article appears in the March 2014 issue of the Journal of American History.

December 2013

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Etienne Benson, author of “The Urbanization of the Eastern Gray Squirrel in the United States”. His article appears in the December 2013 issue of the JAH.

September 2013

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Sarah E. Cornell, author of “Citizens of Nowhere: Fugitive Slaves and Free African Americans in Mexico, 1833-1857”. Her article appears in the September 2013 issue of the JAH.

April 2013

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with a panel about the OAH’s report examining the practice and presentation of American history in the National Park Service and at its sites. Participants include: Dave Thelen, Indiana University (emeritus), and Anne Mitchell Whisnant, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, two coauthors of the report; Katie Bliss, National Park Service; Seth Bruggeman, Temple University; Todd Moye, University of North Texas; Cathy Stanton, Tufts University; and Julia Washburn, National Park Service. Read the report online and learn more about the OAH’s collaboration with the National Park Service at http://oah.org/programs/nps/.

March 2013

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Sarah Miller-Davenport, doctoral candidate in the Department of History at the University of Chicago and author of “Their blood shall not be shed in vain”: American Evangelical Missionaries and the Search for God and Country in Post–World War II Asia. Her work appears in the March 2013 issue of the Journal of American History.

January 2013

Ed Linenthal speaks with James G. Blight, CIGI Chair in Foreign Policy Development and Professor at Balsillie School of International Affairs and with Janet Lang, Research Professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs. They discuss the reexamination of the Cuban missile crisis and their book projects found at http://www.armageddonletters.com/.

December 2012

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Tyler Anbinder, Professor of History at George Washington University and author of “Moving Beyond Rags to Riches,” New York's Famine Irish Immigrants and Their Surprising Savings Accounts. His work appears in the December 2012 issue of the Journal of American History.

September 2012

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Matthew Pehl, Assistant Professor of History at Augustana College and author of “Apostles of Fascism,” “Communist Clergy,” and the UAW: Political Ideology and Working-Class Religion in Detroit, 1919-1945. His work appears in the September 2012 issue of the Journal of American History.

June 2012

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Brian C. Black, Karen R. Merrill, and Tyler Priest, the Consulting Editors and participants in this special issue titled: Oil in American History. Their work appears in the June 2012 issue of the Journal of American History.

March 2012

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Matthew Avery Sutton, author of “Was FDR the Antichrist? The Birth of Fundamentalist Antiliberalism in a Global Age”. The essay appears in the March 2012 issue of the Journal of American History.

December 2011

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Kim Phillips-Fein, author of the State of the Field essay “Conservatism: A State of the Field”. The essay appears in the December 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.

September 2011

John Nieto-Phillips, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Samuel Truett, co-author with Pekka Hämäläinen of “On Borderlands”. The essay appears in the September 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.

June 2011

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Beverly Gage, author of the forthcoming State of the Field essay “Terrorism and the American Experience”. The essay appears in the June 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.

March 2011

Stephen D. Andrews, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Rachel Louise Moran, author of the article Consuming Relief: Food Stamps and the New Welfare of the New Deal. The article appears in the March 2011 issue of the Journal of American History.

December 2010

Khalil G. Muhammad, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Heather Ann Thompson, author of the article Why Mass Incarceration Matters: Rethinking Crisis, Decline, and Transformation in Postwar American History. The article appears in the December 2010 issue of the Journal of American History.

September 2010

John Nieto-Phillips, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Virginia Sánchez Korrol, a participant in the Interchange titled Latino History: An Interchange on Present Realities and Future Prospects. The article appears in the September 2010 issue of the Journal of American History.

June 2010

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Terri L. Synder, author of the forthcoming article “Suicide, Slavery, and Memory in North America”. The article appears in the June 2010 issue of the Journal of American History.

March 2010

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Scott E. Casper, the contributing editor for the Journal’s “Textbooks and Teaching” section. They discuss the March 2009 installment, “Teaching U.S. History Abroad,” in which ten authors from around the world write about their experience teaching U.S. history outside the United States.

December 2009

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Peniel Joseph about his state of the field article, “The Black Power Movement: A State of the Field”. The article appears in the December 2009 issue of the Journal of American History.

September 2009

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Matthew Pinsker about his state of the field article, “Lincoln Theme 2.0”. The article appears in the September 2009 issue of the Journal of American History. (Matthew Pinsker is a lecturer in the OAH Distinguished Lectureship Program.)

June 2009

Stephen Andrews, associate editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Julie C. Ott about her article, “The Free and Open People’s Market:” Political Ideology and Retail Brokerage at the New York Stock Exchange, 1913–1933.” The article appears in the June 2009 issue of the Journal of American History.

March 2009

Ed Linenthal, editor of the Journal of American History, speaks with Professor Thomas W. Zeiler about his article, “The Diplomatic History Bandwagon: A State of the Field.” The article appears in the March 2009 issue of the Journal of American History.

December 2008

Associate editor and professor of history at Indiana University, John Nieto-Phillips speaks with Professor James Meriwether about his article, “‘Worth a Lot of Negro Votes’: Black Voters, Africa, and the 1960 Presidential Campaign.” The article appears in the December 2008 issue of the Journal of American History and is also the focus of the December 2008 “Teaching the JAH” online supplement.

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Guest host Dr. Mireya Loza, Assistant Professor in Food Studies at New York University, interviews Dr. Verónica Martínez-Matsuda Assistant Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History at Cornell University, about her article "For Labor and Democracy: The Farm Security Administration's Competing Visions for Farm Workers' Socioeconomic Reform and Civil Rights in the 1940s", which appears in the September 2019 issue of the Journal of American History.

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